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...That realization is dawning around the world. Frankfurt's DAX opened 5.3% down Friday, while Paris's CAC 40 was 4.8% lower at the opening bell. In London, where officials are expected today to confirm that the UK economy has entered recession for the first time in 16 years, the FSTE 100 opened 5% lower...
...control inflation of the 1970s wreaked havoc with Keynesian fine-tuning and seemed to confirm the criticisms of Lucas and Friedman. But their victory was never complete. The U.S. economic boom of the 1980s was at least partly the result of deficit spending. As financial crises battered much of the world in the 1990s, governments turned to tools devised by Keynes simply because other approaches didn't work. And behavioral economic research has since shown that most humans are awfully shortsighted...
RealtyTrac has about 150 contractors on the ground, collecting data in 2,200 counties, which cover some 90% of households, and the process is just as labor-intensive on the back end. Around 10% of records get tossed each month because the firm's data crunchers can't confirm the addresses. "I chuckle every time I see a new company pop up to provide the definitive answer to how many foreclosures there are," says senior vice president Rick Sharga. "There's as much art to this as science...
...Rooney-Mahoney debate is scheduled for Oct. 24, but the campaign did not return a phone call Wednesday to confirm if it was still on. Palm Beach County GOP chair Sid Dinerstein is happy he still has a seat to the event, he said. Since 2006, the area has seen four city and county commissioners imprisoned for corruption charges; the Foley scandal; a still unresolved Aug. 26 judicial election in which voting ballots briefly disappeared; and now the Mahoney affair. "The voters, they are waiting for a natural leader," Dinerstein said. Or at least one who can manage to stay...
...against the Bush tax cuts when they were temporary but now wanting to make them permanent, which is like marrying someone you didn't want to date. Eight years ago, he waffled on Roe; now he wants to overturn it. He now denounces Supreme Court justices he voted to confirm...